Vaishno Devi is a manifestation of the Hindu Mother Goddess, Devi.
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Author Pintchman identifies with great goddess Mahadevi and says Vaishno Devi contains all powers and is associated with the entire creation as Mahadevi.
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Vaishno Devi fled into Trikuta hills to escape his amorous advances, later she assumed the form of Mahakali and cut off his head with her sword in a cave.
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Vaishno Devi's body held at the entrance to the cave, and his head landed further up the mountain at a place where a Bhairav Nath temple is located.
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Vaishno Devi later manifested into 3 small rocks and stays there to the present day.
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Professor and author Manohar Sajnani says, According to Hindu beliefs, the original abode of Vaishno Devi was Ardha Kunwari, a place about halfway between Katra town and the cave.
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Vaishno Devi meditated in the cave for 9 months just like how a baby stays in its mother's womb for 9 months.
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Vaishno Devi stood on a rock to look at Bhairavnath before her escape and this rock supposedly contained her footprints.
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Vaishno Devi meditated in this cave for 9 months, just like how a baby stays in its mother's womb for 9 months, to escape Bhairav Nath.
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Vaishno Devi blessed him by saying that if pilgrims did not have darshan of his head, their pilgrimage will not be fruitful.
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Vaishno Devi Temple is an important Hindu temple dedicated to Vaishno Devi located in Katra at the Trikuta Mountains within the Indian Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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